I don't scorn at My Little Pony in the way some do, in fact I love Friendship is Magic, thoroughly enjoyed the older episodes and was pleasantly surprised by most of the direct to video releases. But I found this really to be an abomination. The animation is horrid, not in the rushed sense but in that the colours are nauseatingly bright, the character designs look deflated and the eyes of the ponies are ridiculously over-sized. The music isn't much better, I do find the theme tune catchy and find the incidental music mostly in the TV shows and direct to video releases appealingly whimsical, but here the theme tune has lost its catchiness, the tempo is too drawn out for my tastes and some of the instruments are overly prominent. The rest of the music is immediately forgettable. The dialogue is incredibly corny and dull, the story is structurally thin and so sickly sweet you're in danger of getting a cavity, the characters are more annoying than endearing with nothing interesting about them and the voice work is far too cutesy often taking too much time with the dialogue. All in all, didn't like Once Upon a My Little Pony Time: So Many Ways to Play at all. 1/10 Bethany Cox